Richard Dawkins | funny
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Richard Dawkins | faith
At least the fundamentalists haven’t tried to dilute their message. Their faith is exposed for what it is for all to see.
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If children understand that beliefs should be substantiated with evidence, as opposed to tradition, authority, revelation or faith, they will automatically work out for themselves that they are atheists.
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Richard Dawkins | faith
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
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Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
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Richard Dawkins | experience
But perhaps the rest of us could have separate classes in science appreciation, the wonder of science, scientific ways of thinking, and the history of scientific ideas, rather than laboratory experience.
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Richard Dawkins | design
Design can never be an ultimate explanation for anything. It can only be a proximate explanation. A plane or a car is explained by a designer but that’s because the designer himself, the engineer, is explained by natural selection.
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Richard Dawkins | design
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
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Richard Dawkins | computers
Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
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